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Kevin Bounds, of Douglas, Ga., is familiar with the concept that every little bit counts. About five years ago, he stepped on a scale, and a number appeared he wasn’t happy about. Then 38 years old, Bounds was a... Continue Reading »
Baptists on Mission is receiving $3 million in state government funding to assist with ongoing rebuild efforts in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene, N.C. Gov. Josh Stein announced Jan. 31. The announcement of the $3 million grant for... Continue Reading »
On March 4-6, 217 newly endorsed church planters from 30 U.S. states, four Canadian provinces and Puerto Rico gathered at the North American Mission Board’s building in Alpharetta for Send Network Orientation, an event that kickstarts planters’ journeys by... Continue Reading »
The IMB has always required church endorsement for service overseas. Most missionaries were part of a healthy church where discipleship and accountability shaped their call. Churches committed to pray for their missionaries. In the last few years, the International... Continue Reading »
Trent Fetherston had a reputation — the kind of reputation a man will get in an everybody-knows-everybody kind of town like Bar Nunn, Wyo., when he spends what seems like thousands of consecutive happy hours with a drink in... Continue Reading »
Baggs, Bairoil, Glendo, Granger, Medicine Bow, Meeteetse — race past them at the posted interstate speed limit of 80 miles per hour, and one after another, every tiny town in Wyoming can easily look like the same blink-and-you’ll-miss-it blur... Continue Reading »
They didn’t want to do it, but they had no choice. Ecuadorians Eduardo Vera and his wife, Juliana, walked more than 1,900 miles with their family, pushing Juliana’s elderly father almost the whole way on a rusty, discarded tricycle... Continue Reading »
Kevin Bounds is familiar with the concept that every little bit counts. About five years ago, he stepped on a scale and a number appeared he wasn’t happy about. Then 38 years old, Bounds was a jogger but his... Continue Reading »
Across the street from Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Bowman stand five tiny houses filled with stories of heartache and tragedy. Pleasant Grove hopes to use the buildings to turn them into stories of hope and recovery. Eleven years... Continue Reading »
Pat Brown thought her ministry was over when Horace Brown, her husband of 37 years, died on Jan. 1, 2021. Horace Brown served as pastor of 18 churches in South Carolina and Tennessee during his ministry and was director... Continue Reading »
High school students have long been integral to International Mission Board strategy, and those who serve as teenagers often follow a career path that leads them to the mission field, IMB missionary Charlie Worthy said. Worthy saw a need... Continue Reading »
A body of water stays fresh when there’s both an inlet of water going in and an outlet of water going out. If there’s only water flowing in without any outlet, the water stagnates, said a wise faithful member... Continue Reading »
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